Stormy Weather II

[DracoM]

A strange but lovely warming light in the sky here today............hmm! Could be sun, do you think?

[DracoM]

Sat, 12th Aug: shelling it down, on nasty sneaky westerly, and chilly.

So glad summer is back - not.
And forecast is for more of same, only noticeably COLDER.
Huh!

[Serial_Apologist]

Sat, 12th Aug: shelling it down, on nasty sneaky westerly, and chilly.

So glad summer is back - not.
And forecast is for more of same, only noticeably COLDER.
Huh!

Really? I thought forecasts are for warming weather to arrive after the midweek. Certainly for all today's breeze and heavyish cloud it has felt warm and muggy, with the temperature reaching 22 C at midday and staying at that level.

[oddoneout]

Really? I thought forecasts are for warming weather to arrive after the midweek. Certainly for all today's breeze and heavyish cloud it has felt warm and muggy, with the temperature reaching 22 C at midday and staying at that level.

Increasingly windy here but staying reasonably warm - it would have been a bit too warm without the wind I think. Overcast has turned to lumps of dark cloud since late lunchtime, with occasional spits of wet. I've just hung some washing out which might precipitate(!) some action, but if not the wind will make a useful contribution to the clothes drying. Neither the weather map nor the forecast suggest rain should happen just yet, if at all this far east, but that doesn't mean it won't of course.

[Old Grumpy]

Raining now in the Lake District - but hey, what do you expect...


...without it there would be no lakes, would there?

[DracoM]

Yup. close by to you, now raining here even harder

[Serial_Apologist]

Yup. close by to you, now raining here even harder

Widespread yellow warnings for heavy rainfall for today across Wales and the northern half of England, right down to Shropshire in the west. That's caught me by surprise, possibly because down here we're not affected. Later on this coming week it's likely to warm up considerably, apart from Scotland and the NW - sorry about that to those oop there! A bumper crop is predicted from UK winefields this autumn, following on from the dry March, hot June, and rain coming at just the right time.

[Serial_Apologist]

Interesting cloud formations sent into BBC weather from near here, 3 hours ago, showing mid-level instability - altocumulus thickening into castellanus probably at around 8,000 feet associated with a weak passing cold front - with relatively stable stratocumulus showing grey under the shadow, at around 3,500 ft. The higher layer has thickened sufficiently to give us here a brief moderate shower in the past few minutes but not enough for elevated thunder; the sun has just now broken through. Temperature 21 C, moderate SSW breeze, very good visibility nothwithstanding high humidity levels:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/weatherwatchers/report/0da167dc-8505-49bf-a0f9-ccd5eddf9ffc/

[DracoM]

Another filthy day here in Cumbria. Low. dense cloud thick with swirls of drizzly rain. 8C max.

[Pulcinella]

Another filthy day here in Cumbria. Low. dense cloud thick with swirls of drizzly rain. 8C max.

You're lucky: pouring down almost incessantly here.

[oddoneout]

Judging from the birdbaths and other containers in the garden there was a fair amount of rain last night. It was a bit slow to clear first thing although very light so not much of an issue. It was then warm and occasionally sunny until about 4-15 when some stray drops suggested that the dark clouds that had gathered might actually do something rather than just look threatening. I timed it well getting back indoors from errands in town just as the heavens did indeed open but it didn't last long. A bit indeterminate at the moment - bit of blue sky bit of sun quite a lot of cloud of various types, and there might possibly be a bit more wet - but overall not too bad.
Still a bit of a toss-up on the tomato crop/blight front. The fruit is ripening with the warmth but the damp is facilitating spread of the damage. In some ways late blight is worse than early as it's so obvious what will be lost, and it feels like "so near yet so far". With early blight I often just cut my losses and cleared the plants and concentrated on other crops when I had the allotment.
A greenhouse is on the wishlist... Not failsafe but improves the odds considerably!

[Serial_Apologist]

I wonder did anyone else get the spectacular sunset this evening? The setting sun caught the undersides of the back shield from this afternoon's cold front in vivid orange, right across the sky and to the east, with grey purple clouds at lower levels and an extraordinary turquoise sky to the horizon. Hopefully somebody will have caught it on camera and posted on the BBC weather site.

[Serial_Apologist]

No shots of last night's sunset, sadly. Today and tomorrow a few surface-triggered showers can't be ruled out with temperatures rising a few degrees above the mid-August averages - big puffy cumulus starting to pile up as I write - and Friday into Saturday indicates a thundery breakdown as cooler air comes in against a brief burst of Continental Tropical air, which could bring temps into the upper 20s, maybe a 30 C somewhere on Friday, but no higher - thankfully the Continent's excessive heat store has now drained away south. For conditions at last propitious for a long cycle ride I am looking to next Monday or Tuesday.

[Old Grumpy]

Beautiful clear night sky tonight, could make out the milky way and everything

[Joseph K]

It's become cloudier now but was quite idyllic for my walk earlier - sunny with a nice temperature.